3.3.1.1 Creating the Database

To create a database, use anubisadm --create (or
anubisadm -c). Anubisadm will read database
entries from the standard input and write them to the database.
The standard input is supposed to be formatted as a text database
(see section Plain text databases).

For example, to create a GDBM database from plain text file
`userlist', use the following command

anubisadm --create gdbm:/etc/anubis.db < userlist

Similarly, to create an initially empty database, type

anubisadm --create gdbm:/etc/anubis.db < /dev/null

Notice, that if you use SQL database format,
`--create' command does not imply creating the database
structure! So, before running

anubisadm --create mysql://localhost/dbname < userlist

make sure you create the underlying database structure (including
granting privileges to the anubis user), via the
usual procedure. Please refer to corresponding database manual
for the detailed instructions on this.

It is sometimes necessary to convert an existing user database
from one format (protocol) to another. For example, suppose you
have been running GDBM database (text:/etc/anubis.db)
for some time, but now it has grown so big that you decided to
switch to PostgreSQL database to improve performance. To do so,
first create the database using postgres utilities. Then run